Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

Louise Susswell, who turned 101 on April 4, remembers her father used to tell his kids, "I want you to get a good education.

Located near the shores of Lake Michigan, the Loop refers to a group of high-rise buildings within a rectangular loop of elevated train tracks ... Sedgwick subway station. West of the Gold ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is launching a transformative landscaping project that will revitalize Union Square Park with native Illinois plants and flowers, adding new depth a ...

An extra-alarm fire burned at a commercial building on Chicago's West Side early Wednesday, disrupting train travel on Chicago Transit Authority tracks during the morning rush hour.

An Amtrak train struck a vehicle early Tuesday morning in Alton, Illinois, causing no injuries to passengers or officers, and authorities are actively working to locate the driver of the vehicle.

In Freeport, Illinois ... whenever the train approached a town. The two antagonists met first on August 21, 1858, in Ottawa, 50 miles west of Chicago. Douglas sneered that Lincoln was no more ...

The train involved in the crash was traveling from St. Louis to Chicago. Ahead of the crash, police were contacted that a vehicle had crashed through a protective fence near an Amtrak station and ...

The winning ticket was purchased at a Shell gas station, located at 130 West North Avenue. The player matched all five numbers in Friday’s midday drawing to score the jackpot prize. The winning ...

Sypult said Gifford’s frustration with the rates charged by the Illinois Central spurred his decision to start the Punkin ...